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Post by Dillon on Feb 6, 2024 3:17:37 GMT
Yes. The track list has been officially released. But the “synth pop” attribute is only rumored. The album is not yet posted on any streaming site or digital music store for pre-add/pre-order so therefore a genre has not been revealed.
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Post by Dillon on Feb 6, 2024 0:55:48 GMT
Yes Taylor continues to pump out music and content in general, but the high level of exposure doesn’t inherently come from her and her team. We know she sparingly markets her content for her own sake. She has a huge fan base that will talk to each other and hype each other up, but it’s largely the media that pushes Taylor to overexposure.
Just look at the NFL and sports realm showing Taylor on tv when she’s at a game or bringing her up in conversation where it’s not needed. Taylor wasn’t asking for that and quite honestly, neither was the public. The media knows Taylor’s name brings a crowd because of her vast fan base and overall appeal so they bring her up at any chance they get even when she’s not super relevant in the topic. I think the media’s attempts to get viewers and impressions from the public and Taylor’s fans and gone overboard and over time that will cause Taylor to become “overplayed” or “overrated”.
It’s kind of unfortunate. Because Taylor is obviously in a very creative headspace right now with a seemingly infinite amount of passion and drive to fulfill her creativity and of course she should continue to fuel that while she’s got it because she’ll surely have times in the future when her drive for those things might diminish even if only temporarily. So I think Taylor could continue to pump out content to fulfill herself and also keep her fans engaged and excited about her projects without the general public growing tired of her because it’s kept closer knit. But the media’s unruliness for using Taylor for bait is keeping her name in too many places and it’s giving the general public fatigue over time.
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Post by Dillon on Feb 4, 2024 23:48:49 GMT
All her social media still has the midnights album cover as the profile picture but in black and white.
And the main page of her website is showing an “error” that doesn’t have any known relation to any actual typical website errors. It shows the numbers 321 a couple times which could be references to the lyric in the bridge of So It Goes or could be a reference to Delicate and the 123LGB. And there’s a random group of letters isolated on the page that unscramble to spell “red herring”.
Many people online are taking these as Easter eggs. And honestly, Taylor’s real Easter eggs tend to be more straight forward and “easy” to find or understand. So I think this could all be hinting to Rep TV. The question is, what and when is happening.
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Post by Dillon on Jan 10, 2024 0:41:38 GMT
Am I the only one who doesn’t think she looked mad? I don’t think she looked mad at all! She basically just gave no reaction. I think it’s her overly long bangs that are covering her eyebrows and sitting just above her eyes that made people think she appeared as mad. Had her bangs been shorter like they were for most of last year, I think it would’ve been clearer to everyone that she wasn’t mad.
I think she just didn’t think the joke was funny…like most other people, and she took a sip of her drink because she knew the camera was on her looking for a reaction when she didn’t have one so she just took a drink to fill the gap/pause until the camera panned back off of her.
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Post by Dillon on Jan 1, 2024 2:03:29 GMT
Evermore definitely took more time to grow on me compared to folklore. I think what cemented evermore as an album I could fully appreciate were the acoustic performances on the eras tour. Hearing those like that gave them such a different vibe (despite evermore not being a huge sound production album in the first place). I fell in love with the acoustic eras tour performances of the evermore songs I liked least. With my new love of those performances I was able to revisit the studio songs and find a new appreciation for them. I can listen to the album end to end now with enjoyment rather than suffering through certain songs or just straight up skipping them.
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Post by Dillon on Nov 11, 2023 2:58:43 GMT
I agree that Midnights isn’t anything innovative in the music industry. It ws an incredibly well thought out album which aided in its success. But commercial success of music is not a deciding factor on whether a nomination turns into a win.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Midnights won AOTY. But I would be even less surprised if it didn’t.
If Midnights did win AOTY, that would give Taylor 4 wins in the category and break the record for most wins in that category out of any artist in the history of the Grammys. I’m not so sure that Midnights is the album that deserves to break that record.
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Post by Dillon on Nov 10, 2023 18:38:43 GMT
Fearless also won Best Country Album when it won AOTY and 1989 won Best Pop Vocal Album when it won’t AOTY.
But Folklore didn’t win a Best Genre Album category when it won AOTY. So maybe winning AOTY and the genre category together is not something they allow anymore? Because to me, it makes sense for an album to always win its genre category is it won AOTY against all genres within the nominations.
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Post by Dillon on Nov 9, 2023 18:11:31 GMT
And she could possibly be unsure of what do to since Cruel Summer is still topping the charts right now. It’s kind of inhibiting any other song she tries to promote. Perhaps she wants to see if Cruel Summer slows down and then push something else from 1989 like a music video.
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Post by Dillon on Nov 9, 2023 14:13:39 GMT
The strike is over, do you think we'll get a music video soon? I heard a theory on a podcast that could be the reason we didn't get a music video for 1989 TV. I know we might get an announcement about her scene in Deadpool now that the strike is over. Although, was there a video for Fearless? I don't remember one. With the tour starting back again today, she may have been waiting to announce/premiere the music video at a tour stop like the video for I Can See You. The release week of 1989 did not need the help of streams of a music video to boost its success. She may have predicted that and rather wanted to push out a music video in one of the weeks following the release of 1989 to boost streams back up after the hype has fallen and people have started to move onto other albums.
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Post by Dillon on Nov 9, 2023 14:08:12 GMT
Worth considering the editions of each album went like this: Debut - Best Buy edition, deluxe, bonus track rerelease Fearless - Walmart edition, platinum edition Speak Now - Target edition Red - Target edition, Zinepak edition 1989 - Target edition, but there were 13 collectible sets of Polaroids so undoubtedly some fans bought more than one to try to collect all the Polaroids Reputation - 2 Target magazine editions Lover - 4 Target journals Folklore - 8 different cover editions, signed copies Evermore - deluxe, signed copies Midnights - 4 color variants, clock piece, signed copies Fearless TV - Target edition, signed copies Speak Now TV - color variants of vinyl Red TV - signed copies 1989 TV - 4 color variants, Target exclusive vinyl, Target editions that vary slightly from the standards, filmstrip shelf Yeah over time she’s clearly found ways to better market the albums and sell accessories etc. to increase incentive to buy multiple versions. Very great point. And to further that point of her continuously finding new ways to incentivize her albums (both physical and digital copies featuring exclusive tracks (i.e. SNTV deluxe with eras tour live recordings), she hasn’t seemed to do the same exact thing twice. The first three albums all had a similar approach, but nevertheless, not copy and pasted from one another. Changing up her approach with each album, even if only slightly, gives a sense of innovation to the album and it doesn’t feel distinctly the same as each album before it.
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Post by Dillon on Nov 8, 2023 18:19:35 GMT
^ I can say I’m surprised but I can also say that I’m not surprised. It’s really setting a precedent. Some fans think that RepTV can outpace 1989TV, but I don’t think it can or will. Rep definitely has a huge fandom support, but it doesn’t have the same level of support from the GP as 1989 did/does. I think RepTV could sell over a million copies in its first week like the original did, but I don’t see it matching or succeeding 1989TV. It’s hard to say. The original Red and Speak Now sold over a million in its first week but neither taylor’s version did.
Hypothetically speaking because a Midnights TV isn’t a concept and never will be, Even as big as Midnights was upon release, I don’t think it could necessarily replicate its success 10-13 years down the line as a re-release/re-recording. I think it shows how different the success of 1989 as a whole differs from the other albums.
But 1989TV also sets a precedent for future new albums. Can Taylor have a new album reach a higher milestone than Midnights and 1989TV. It’s difficult to pinpoint how much of the success of 1989TV is from Taylor’s continual increase in popularity during the Eras Tour and how much is from the support of the taylor’s version project and how much is from the nostalgia of 1989 specifically compared to other albums.
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Post by Dillon on Oct 25, 2023 21:59:03 GMT
I’ve listened to all the TVs so far in order like I do with brand new albums. So I’ll be doing the same for 1989 TV too. Obviously the experience for everyone is different, but for me listening to the original album in order first gets me hyped and more excited for the vault tracks. I also like how listening to the original songs first gives me a fresh listen of those songs to be able to compare the production of the vault songs and decide whether or not they “fit” with the original track list. I’ve been seeing people posting online that they’re already receiving their vinyls and cds. I’m not one of the lucky few Hopefully nobody isn’t posting/leaking actual audio or spoilers.
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Post by Dillon on Oct 24, 2023 22:15:25 GMT
I’m seeing many twitter accounts reporting that 1989 TV is pushing an official single to radio on Friday with the release of the album.
I haven’t seen any sort of official accounts reporting this though. If there is an official single, I’m assuming it will be a vault track. And well possibly get a music video?
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Post by Dillon on Oct 24, 2023 22:10:48 GMT
Ah yes I honestly keep forgetting Speak Now came out because I only listened through the whole album once and they pretty much stopped promoting it after it was released and started right with 1989. Poor Speak Now. Even Debut TV will probably get more attention and promotion.
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Post by Dillon on Oct 23, 2023 22:26:25 GMT
^ and Speak Now (TV) if you’re including re-recordings.
I think it’s really cool that Cruel Summer has had such a resurgence this year. And for it to have stayed so high on the Hot 100 chart all summer long and finally reach #1 when it’s not even summer anymore.
I think it will have a resurgence every year during summer just like August has had each August since folklore.
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